[HECnet] [Off-Topic] CP/M 80 and its machines

[Dave McGuire]

   These kids today...

--  
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Joe Ferraro <jferraro at gmail.com> wrote:


On a side note, I have quite a few 8" VMS floppies sitting right here on my desk at work...   (on a side, side-note: funny thing I've found, many of our interns here have never seen a floppy disk... )


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Dan B <dibi58 at gmail.com> wrote:
make sure you have working 8" floppies
;-)

On 2/27/13, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>    Yes :-)
>>
>> --
>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA
>>
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2013, at 1:08 AM, Dan B <dibi58 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> grand s-100 bus
>>>
>>> On 2/27/13, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>> Dave you noted that the repository that one of us has discovered also
>>>> contains CP/M 80 materials. Would you be surprised that the Cromemco
>>>> which ended its operations in the US sometime ago, does exist as a
>>>> European company?
>>>>
>>>> I have an interest in those contraptions, in that when they first
>>>> started being made available, they triggered most of my interests in
>>>> the technology.
>>>>
>>>> If you're further curious feel free to write off list regarding them
>>>> things, and the Space Shuttle.......
>>>> -----
>>>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
>>>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>>>>
>
> Hello!
> Indeed.
>
> I have sitting here an S100 box I'm planning on restoring. As to what
> it did before, that is the interesting point. What it will do next?
> Excellent question.
>
> --
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>